Chapter 615: 614. Chapter 609: Ding Huan

614. Chapter 609: Ding Huan's Solution

After the hundred-thousand-cultivator army departed, Song Chengdao let out a breath and said: "Ever since I shattered the Void Ascension Array, I've felt a sudden lightness in my spirit."

Ding Huan found nothing strange about it.

With Song Chengdao's cultivation level, he could deeply sense danger within the Immortal World's plane.

Ding Huan began setting up array flags, preparing to retrieve the massive root.

Leaving this root here was a menace, but Ding Huan knew it was unquestionably a top-tier treasure.

As for what use it might serve in the future, he didn't yet know—he'd first store it in his Five Elements World.

The root was too large, but fortunately Ding Huan had already destroyed the Void Ascension Array; otherwise, with his current strength, he truly couldn't have taken it away.

Even so, it took Ding Huan an entire day to transport the root into his Five Elements World via the Teleportation Array.

Three days later, the Cosmic Cauldron burst out of the Divine Star and headed toward the Semi-Deity Continent.

The Cosmic Cauldron's interior was spacious enough; Ding Huan left Yi Jie outside to control the vessel while he continued studying the Three Thousand Great Dao.

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Song Chengdao, Wu Hanchan, Zhuo Yao, and Yan Qi each had their own cultivation cave.

Although Ding Huan had installed a Semi-Deity Vein within the Cosmic Cauldron, filling it with potent Immortal Qi—a supreme opportunity for Immortal World cultivators—

Song Chengdao and the other three had all surpassed the Immortal Emperor realm; further seclusion and cultivation offered them little benefit.

Ding Huan had been studying the second seal of the Seven Seals of Reincarnation—the Unfixed Seal—but despite three consecutive years of seclusion, he made not the slightest progress.

Ding Huan abandoned his study of the Seven Seals of Reincarnation.

Such Great Dao techniques—if one cannot perceive their Dao resonance—even thirty thousand years might not suffice to manifest them.

On the Cosmic Cauldron's deck, only Yi Jie was still gleefully steering the vessel through twists and turns.

Though he hadn't deviated from course, he deliberately maneuvered the Cosmic Cauldron in loops and spirals just for fun.

Whenever he encountered small meteorites, he would inevitably steer the vessel into them, watching the shattered rocks fly everywhere.

"Master Ding, I'm controlling it perfectly," Yi Jie said upon seeing Ding Huan approach, worried he'd be stripped of control over the Cosmic Cauldron.

He was right—Ding Huan's first action was to slap Yi Jie flying and take control himself.

The Cosmic Cauldron's speed instantly increased by dozens of times.

"Go immediately into seclusion and cultivate. If by the time we reach the Semi-Deity Continent you haven't become a Level Four Immortal Beast, you'll stay there—I won't take a useless waste to the Divine Realm."

Ding Huan imposed pressure on Yi Jie without hesitation.

After Yi Jie went to cultivate, Ding Huan, while piloting the Cosmic Cauldron, also refined his divine sense.

At this speed, the divine sense would be instantly severed in the Void.

Refining his divine sense at this speed was still highly effective.

Later, Song Chengdao and the others also ended their seclusion; seeing Ding Huan control the Cosmic Cauldron, they came to the deck to discuss Dao with him.

Ding Huan's understanding of the laws of heaven and earth was unparalleled; every insight struck straight to the heart.

At first, Song Chengdao and the others had only come to discuss Dao out of boredom.

After a while, they were utterly convinced by Ding Huan and began seriously asking him questions about the Great Dao.

On the path of Dao, there are no followers.

Ding Huan revealed everything without concealment—anything he knew, he explained in detail; he had nothing to hide.

He even detailed why he hadn't chosen to nurture a divine core, remaining instead at the Immortal Emperor realm.

"Ding Huan, you say this nurturing of the divine core is false nurturing—then we've already nurtured ours. How do we fix this?" Yan Qi, upon hearing Ding Huan's words, was the first to grow anxious.

She had only recently perceived the concept of nurturing the divine core and hadn't felt its falseness as strongly as Song Chengdao.

But she trusted Ding Huan—if Ding Huan said it was false nurturing, then it was truly false nurturing.

The greatest fear on the Dao path is straying from the true direction; according to Ding Huan's words, they were all already off course.

Song Chengdao sighed: "You're better off than I am—I've already forged a false divine core. I've pondered it for over a hundred thousand years and still have no answer… sigh…"

"Brother Ding Huan, do you have a solution?" Wu Hanchan watched Ding Huan anxiously.

He was at the Divine Nurturing realm, nearly complete—but his power was even less than Ding Huan's, proving Ding Huan and Song Chengdao's suspicions correct: they were all false Divine Nurturers.

Upon hearing Wu Hanchan's question, even Song Chengdao looked at Ding Huan with anticipation.

He had never found a solution to the matter of false Divine Nurturing or forged false divine cores.

Ding Huan was different—since they first met him, Ding Huan had never been explainable by ordinary logic.

From the moment Ding Huan used a single technique to obliterate the entire Divine Star's divine clan cultivators, Song Chengdao knew Ding Huan was extraordinary.

Such a technique could only be achieved by linking with the laws of heaven and earth—not even poison could accomplish it.

After hearing Wu Hanchan's question, Ding Huan fell silent for a long while before saying: "I have some immature ideas—I don't know if they'll work.

But my ideas cannot be realized within the Immortal World's plane; I must ascend to the Divine Realm. The Immortal World's laws are incomplete—there can be no Ascension Lei Jie.

Yet if we can find an Ascension Site, ascension may still be possible—just as the Divine Star's Ascension Root relied on the combination of the Ascension Root and the Ascension Array."

"Brother Ding Huan, your reason for returning to the Semi-Deity Continent is to seek an Ascension Site, isn't it?" Song Chengdao asked urgently.

Ding Huan nodded: "Yes. This journey to the Semi-Deity Continent is indeed to seek ascension. In fact, the Semi-Deity Continent has another name: the Light Heaven."

"The Light Heaven?"

Song Chengdao and the other three exclaimed in unison.

"Could it be the Light Heaven the Dao Ancestor said might allow ascension?" Song Chengdao's eyes widened.

Ding Huan nodded: "Yes. That's the Light Heaven."

Zhuo Yao seemed to recall something: "Ding Huan, when the Dao Ancestors entered the Divine Realm from the Divine Star—could it be…"

Ding Huan knew what Zhuo Yao was about to say; he grinned: "With the Dao Ancestors' strength and ability, and given that back then the Divine Star's Ascension Passage had no aid from the divine clan's Ascension Array, there should have been no problem."

In truth, Ding Huan secretly regretted it—if he had been in the Divine Realm, he would have gone to see what happened when the Dao Ancestors were surrounded by Divine Realm divine clan elites.

Should he drive them out, or win them over by virtue?

Also, Ding Huan really wanted to know where the Dao Ancestor's strength differed from that of the powerful experts of the God Realm.

"Ding Huan, keep going with your plan." Wu Hanchan grew anxious.

He thought to himself, this is a critical moment—what are Song Chengdao and Zhuo Yao doing? They actually interrupted Ding Huan mid-sentence.

What he worried most about was that, once he ascended, he might not end up in the same place as Ding Huan.

Now that he knew Ding Huan's method, in the future he might be able to follow Ding Huan's method himself.

Song Chengdao and Zhuo Yao said no more nonsense; all of them turned to look at Ding Huan.

Ding Huan said slowly, "If one can ascend to the God Realm from the Half-God Continent, then under the rules of heaven and earth in the God Realm, we will surely gain new insights into the Great Dao.

If, within these new insights into the Great Dao, we can reorganize our own Great Dao and cast off the traces of the Great Dao we no longer need, isn't that a kind of nirvana for our own Great Dao?"

"But how exactly does one cast off the traces of one's own Great Dao?" Song Chengdao's tone was the most urgent.

If it could be done, he would have done it long ago.

He not only had to destroy his own divine spark, but also cast off his false insights into God-Nurturing.

Yet these things were not something one could simply want or dismiss at will.

Once certain Great Daos were comprehended, they became deeply rooted within one's consciousness, with no further chance of change.

Ding Huan said in a grave tone, "I once heard that when the Dao Ancestor proved his Dao, he once severed the three corpses. I didn't understand it well before, but now I believe that was merely one method within the proving of the Dao.

My plan is, after I ascend to the God Realm, I intend to choose Dao-Severing to prove my Dao."

Dao-Severing to prove the Dao?

Wu Hanchan, Zhuo Yao, and Yan Qi all stared at Ding Huan in confusion.

Only Song Chengdao had a gleam of excitement and fervor in his eyes.

Unlike the three of them with Wu Hanchan, after condensing his false divine spark, he had already been stuck on this very problem for over a hundred thousand years without the slightest progress.

So the moment Ding Huan mentioned Dao-Severing, he gained a sudden clarity about his own future.

He could sever the Great Daos he did not need, and then use that to prove the Great Dao he did need.

This should be what Ding Huan called the nirvana of the Great Dao.

"I understand. Thank you, Brother Ding Huan…" Song Chengdao murmured to himself.

Ding Huan knew that Song Chengdao's enlightenment was simple, and Wu Hanchan's enlightenment was only a matter of time.

Zhuo Yao and Yan Qi might not be able to understand in the short term, so he simply said again, "If what you're nurturing is a false God-Nurturing, then don't keep cultivating it.

Once you reach a higher realm, find a way to sever your false Dao and start cultivating a new Great Dao anew…"

Zhuo Yao and Yan Qi instantly understood.

Ding Huan had long since found a new Great Dao for them—that was the Primordial Great Dao.

In other words, when Ding Huan had originally imparted the Primordial Great Dao to Zhuo Wushang, he had already taken their future paths into consideration.

Zhuo Yao even remembered that Ding Huan had told him and Yan Qi not to cultivate the Primordial Great Dao for now.

The meaning of that only became clear to them now: it was so that after they entered the God Realm, they too would use the method of Dao-Severing.

Sever the false Great Dao they were currently nurturing, and then start cultivating the Primordial Great Dao anew.

Zhuo Yao and Yan Qi exchanged a glance, and a deep gratitude welled up in them toward Ding Huan.

"Hanchan, once you reach the God Realm, switch to a God Realm cultivation method and discard your current Great Dao method. That's the Dao-Severing Brother Ding Huan mentioned—sever the old and cultivate the new."

Song Chengdao offered an explanation.

Wu Hanchan understood as well.

His current cultivation method was excellent, but it could only carry him to the Immortal Emperor realm.

His God-Nurturing realm, in truth, had no cultivation method to begin with.

Even without the Dao-Severing Ding Huan mentioned, once he reached the God Realm, he would still have to sever his current cultivation method and choose a new one to cultivate.

With a clear goal and direction in mind, the mood of the few of them immediately changed.

When discussing the Dao and chatting, their spirits were far more pleasant.

Discussing the Dao also knew no passage of years; several years slipped by in a flash, until the Universe Cauldron came to a halt outside the Half-God Continent.